Quotes about Divine

The promise of the psalm—and both Hebrews and Christians have always read it this way—is not that we shall never stub our toes but that no injury, no illness, no accident, no distress will have evil power over us, that is, will be able to separate us from God's purposes in us.

Theologian Karl Rahner was once asked if he believed in miracles. His reply? 'I live on miracles—I couldn't make it through a day without them.' Still another name for it is mystery.

Prayer is speech at its most alive. The breath that is breathed into us by God we breathe back to God.

We fantasize an archaeological scoop. Meanwhile what we have right before us turns out to be far more useful—a theological probe. Instead of being told what Jeremiah's parents were doing, we are told what his God was doing: "Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations—that's what I had in mind for you" (Jer 1:5).

Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.

The chosen ones of God were those who let God pursue his interest in them, and as a result received his stamp of legitimacy.

God uses language to create and command us.

The premise of the psalm for all work is that God works: "If GOD doesn't build the house... If GOD doesn't guard the city... " The condition if presupposes that God does work: he builds; he guards.

It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.